Siglin v. Frost
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on two promissory notes, each of which was executed October 18, 1890, and was payable two years after date. Writ dated July 1, 1897. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Each of the notes declared on contains a recital that it is given in part payment for a certain lot of land described in it, purchased on the day of its date by the defendant from the Bluffton Land, Ore, and Furnace Company. By amendment of the writ, this corporation has become sole plaintiff in the case. On the same day as the making of the note, and as a part of the same transaction, a bond was given to the defendant by this corporation, which recited the execution of the note *285as a part payment of the purchase price of this land, and was upon the condition'that on the payment of the note at…
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